Carlo Ceroni, Portrait, 1870, Oil on Canvas, Framed

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The present portrait of Carlo Ceroni is an authentic work by an Upper Vicenza (Thiene or Schio) painter, unidentified due … Read more The present portrait of Carlo Ceroni is an authentic work by an Upper Vicenza (Thiene or Schio) painter, unidentified due to lack of signature on the painting.
It is an oil on canvas work, executed on commission, in the late 1800s, when Ceroni was 30/35 years old, presumably around 1870/80.
The person portrayed, who had emigrated from Val Solda with other of his villagers, including the poet-writer Antonio Fogazzaro, settled in Vicenza.
Arriving as a bricklayer, he made his fortune and became a building contractor. This fortune also enabled him to have his image portrayed and thus handed down to posterity.

P.S.: The information given here was kindly granted by Ms. Cristiana Bevilacqua, wife of gallery owner Giulio Bertoldo, who died in Vicenza on 05/11/1996, a relative of Ceroni himself (his great-grandfather).

The frame was made of carved wood with 22 Kti pure gold leaf gilding, of which the maker Valeriano Bertolini stamped the mark. On the label is indicated the technique of gold leaf application according to the method of the Antica Scula dei Doratori Veneti. See less